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...headlines, and for the moment at least, most of the argument about whether the moon program is worth its cost was forgotten while the nation joined in the cheering. "This is a great day for science and a great day for the U.S.," exulted University of Arizona Professor Gerard Kuiper, head of a team of scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, which prepared the shot. From all over the world flowed praise. "A stupendous achievement," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society. Even Moscow joined the chorus...
Zoom. First to get a look at the pictures was a committee of scientists headed by Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Arizona, a man who has spent much of his life peering at the moon through the world's best telescopes. "What has been achieved today is truly remarkable," he announced. "We have made progress in resolution not by a factor of 10, or 100, which would have been already remarkable, but by a factor of 1,000. The moon, which a good telescope can bring to a distance of 500 miles, has been brought...
...side of the moon will keep moon experts theorizing for many years. The seas are really flat, low plains filled with dust or lava. They must have been formed rather late in the moon's history, because few meteor craters pit their surfaces. Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that the seas were made by the impact of asteroids up to 90 miles in diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark lava welled up in the holes, and is visible there...
Although the earth's magnetic field is still something of a mystery, most geophysicists think it is caused by motion of the liquid metal core of the earth's interior. The University of Chicago's Astronomer Gerard Kuiper reasons that if the moon has no magnetic field, it cannot have a liquid core. The Russian observation, he says, backs up his belief that the moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner...
...Lunik II undoubtedly blasted a crater, which Kuiper estimates as about 100 ft. in diameter with walls 10 ft. high. If such a crater happened to be in a smooth place, it should be detectable by a powerful telescope, under ideal conditions, as a faint bright spot. If the Lunik crater were inside a big crater or in a jumble of craters, it would probably not be visible...